Meaning

2 senses

  1. To express as an analogy.

    The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.

    make an analogy

  2. (transitive)To treat one thing as analogous to another.

Translations

2 languages

Forms

analogizes, analogizing, analogized, analogized
Base formanalogize · to analogize
3rd person singularanalogizes
Present participleanalogizing
Past simpleanalogized
Past participleanalogized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyanalogize
he, she, itanalogizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsanalogized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave analogized
he, she, ithas analogized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill analogize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedanalogy
Derivedanalogizableanalogization

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
analgesicanaloganalogousanalogueanalogyB2analysisB1
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